Entry № 1620 · English origin

Breanna Breanna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bree-AN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Strong (Breanna Stewart, two-time WNBA MVP)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "strong (breanna stewart, two-time wnba mvp)".

Breanna is the feminine of Brian — from the Old Irish Brían, possibly from brígh (strong, noble). Two Olympic gold medals (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020).

Subject of countless WNBA retrospectives.

Strong (Breanna Stewart, two-time WNBA MVP) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Breanna
Transliteration
Breanna
Pronunciation
/ briˈæn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Breanna stands.

Breanna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Breannas before her.

Real people
Breanna Stewart
American WNBA player.
born 1994
In fiction
Breanna
Various American TV.

Names connected to Breanna.

The number behind Breanna.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Breanna reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.